{"id":9228,"date":"2024-12-18T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T04:00:28","slug":"we-need-a-little-festivus-right-this-very-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9228","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Little Festivus Right This Very Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ll its that time of year where we trot out the Festivus Pole and air our grievances. But actually, we&#8217;re going to forego our rant parade on the state of this country until later. As we&#8217;ve mentioned throughout the year, we don&#8217;t want to continue with the Bucket anymore and we&#8217;re calling it quits. We would be doing the same thing if the Harris\/Walz ticket had won. We&#8217;re preparing a final  gripe session that we&#8217;ll be posting very soon. But in the meantime . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d like to wish everyone a Happy Festivus. And to all those Republican, MAGA Morons, TFG acolytes, QAnon nutbags, media enablers and everyone who voted to put the twice impeached, convicted felon, megalomaniac man child  Trump back in the White House and are shamelessly promoting a fascist takeover by christian nationalists with Project 2025 . . . we think you know where you can stick the Festivus pole.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Festivus aluminum pole\" class=\"wp-image-3210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/festivus-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll its that time of year where we trot out the Festivus Pole and air our grievances. But actually, we&#8217;re going to forego our rant parade on the state of this country until later. As we&#8217;ve mentioned throughout the year, we don&#8217;t want to continue with the Bucket anymore and we&#8217;re calling it quits. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Need A Little Festivus Right This Very Minute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[827,252,312,914,328,9,2143,2144,199,296,188,19,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}